The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:
A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author argues that the university should offer free tuition for the college-aged children of their professors at the university. Stated in this way, the argument fails to mention several key factors, reveals several instances of poor reasoning and distorts the view of the situation by manipulating facts. The author supports the argument by providing a study conducted at the nearby Oceania University that showed higher faculty retention where this policy was implied. However, careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support for the authors conclusion. Hence, the argument is incomplete or unsubstantiated.
Firstly, the assumption made that the study conducted at the nearby Oceania University also applies to the Seatown University might not be true. It is possible that what might be the reason for the professors to stay at Oceania University might not work for the professors at the Seatown University. It is possible that many professors in the university would not have children or would have children still too young to go to college. It is also possible that the college-aged children of the professor might have some different aspiration for their carrier and would not choose for these free tuition. Hence one might require more data and statistics about the ages of the children or the aspirations that the children have for them.
Secondly, it is quite possible that the teachers that the institute hires for teaching these college-aged students might be terrible at their jobs and hence would compel the professors to remove their children from these classes. One should also throw light on the economical aspect of providing these free tuition and what effect it would have on the financial condition of the university. The argument should provide data on whether the cost of providing free tuition matches with the cost of retaining a professor.
The argument does not provide any information about why the university is finding it hard to retain their professors. It is possible that the professors might want some other facilities changed at the university which would lure them to stay.
In conclusion, there are several aspects in the argument that have not been analysed. The argument should provide more studies from various sources in order to make it more reliable.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
The argument 2 and argument 3 are not addressed properly. need to argue:
argument 2: for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty
argument 3 : and luring new professors.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 375 350
No. of Characters: 1928 1500
No. of Different Words: 165 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.401 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.141 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.652 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 141 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.059 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.357 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.368 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.59 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.131 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 575, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...rovides little credible support for the authors conclusion. Hence, the argument is inco...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nt is incomplete or unsubstantiated. Firstly, the assumption made that the st...
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Line 3, column 439, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ldren still too young to go to college. It is also possible that the college-aged ...
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Line 3, column 607, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ould not choose for these free tuition. Hence one might require more data and statist...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tions that the children have for them. Secondly, it is quite possible that the ...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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... the cost of retaining a professor. The argument does not provide any inform...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rsity which would lure them to stay. In conclusion, there are several aspects...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1966.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 375.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24266666667 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72136697676 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.445333333333 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 611.1 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.3649385782 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.647058824 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0588235294 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94117647059 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.31615683884 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110976617801 0.0743258471296 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115382232091 0.0701772020484 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163774622814 0.128457276422 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0920653477294 0.0628817314937 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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